BAMAKO: An apparent car bombing took place on Thursday near a military camp housing French and Chadian troops in restive northern Mali, that injured at least two civilians, local officials and security sources said.
An official said that the vehicle “exploded around 500 metres (yards) from the camp occupied by the French and the Chadians.”
“Two civilians were wounded, they are at the hospital. No one has yet approached the vehicle to see if the driver was still alive.”An official in the Kidal governor’s office said that the vehicle exploded “less than a kilometre from the camp housing the Chadians and the French”.
The driver was probably a “kamikaze” who was “targeting the camp”, but “he blew up his black car in a courtyard. There was a loud noise,” he added.
